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Even wife an' me, thet's been knowin' him f'om the beginnin', not only knowin' his traits, but how he come by 'em, though some is hard to trace to their so'ces, why, sir, even we have to study sometimes to keep in with him, an' of co'se a teacher why, it's thess hit an' miss whether he'll take the right tack with him or not; an' sometimes one teacher'll strike it one day, an' another nex' day; so by payin' schoolin' for him right along in all three, why, of co'se, ef he don't feel like goin' to one, why, he'll go to another.
He told me from the first on't that he wuzn't goin' to pay out a cent of money there. Sez he, "We can see enough Heaven knows we can without payin' for any sights." Wall, here we see all kinds of American glass manufactured, from goblets and butter-dishes up to glass draperies, dresses, laces, neckties, and all sorts of orniments.
It's the lawful wives as have the work to do, an' the lawfuller the wives the lawfuller the work. If this here government ain't got nothin' better to do than to drive poor women till they drop I reckon we'd as well stop payin' taxes to keep it goin'." Nicholas wiped his heated brow on his shirt-sleeve and hung his hat on the back of a bottomless chair.
The deacon looked at her curiously. 'Hard up, air ye, Pawliney? Well, well, don't colour up so, we all hev our scarce times. I ain't partial to payin' forehanded, but you was awful kind to Mis' Croaker when her rheumatiz was bad on her, an' I ain't one ter forgit a favour. Cum in, Pawliney, while I git the money. Mis' Croaker will be rale pleased; she thinks you're the best spinner in the valley.
This is about the only country we've managed to throw a fire-break around yet. It took a lot of time to do it, but it's worth while." "This is where the Power Company gets its power," remarked Bob. "Yes," replied California John, drily. "Which same company is putting up the fight of its life in Congress to keep from payin' anything at all for what it gets."
"And enough, I must say," Aunt Mary remarked to Lucinda upon receipt of the statement; "three hundred dollars for one cat—for, after all, Jack blames the whole on the cat, an’ he didn’t hit it, even then." Lucinda did not answer. "But if the boy settles down now I shan’t mind payin’ the three—Where are you goin’?" For Lucinda was walking out of the room.
"It stands to reason that the state don't realize much out of that there forty mile of track. The G. and B. gits the use of the state, so to speak, without payin' a fair rent for it. You draw up a bill pervidin' that the railroad has got to pay a fee of, say a dollar, for every passenger car it runs over them forty miles, and fifty cents for every freight car.
I don't mind pride unless it keeps a man from payin' his honest debts. You ought to have better sense." "An' you ought to keep yer breath to cool yer porridge," said Uncle Peabody. Mr.
"It's a long story," said Dan, "but maybe ye'll have noticed a hole in a smiddy wall, where they will be throwing out the ashes. Well, in this lonely place here, there werena many to trouble, and it cam' to be known that a man could get a dram if he paid for it, and as much as he liked to be payin' for.
Lord, I ain't had a smoke of decent tobacco or a cup of decent coffee in a coon's age. I've forgotten what a square meal tastes like. I weighed myself yesterday. Fifteen pounds lighter than when the strike begun. If it keeps on much more I can fight middleweight. An' this is what I get after payin' dues into the union for years and years.
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